Abstract

This volume critically examines the role of science in the social sciences. It studies how humanities in South Asia and Europe underwent a transformation with the adoption of scientific methods, turning ancient cultural processes and phenomena into an enhanced scientific structure. The essays in this book, Examine the role of humanities and social sciences in the globalised world with the intention of working out commonalities and differences. Discuss the development of science as a discipline in the modern and historical contexts, and the differences between modern science, scientification, and pseudoscience. Study the interactions between bodies of knowledge such as Sanskrit and computer science; mathematics and Vedic mathematics; science and pilosophy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, Indology, linguistics, history, philosophy of science and social science..